The faster they are, the harder they fall: Verizon suffers major 4G LTE outage

Verizon Wireless’ speedy 4G LTE network hit another milestone on Tuesday night: its first major outage. BGR has confirmed what dozens of tipsters have been telling us all night via email — Verizon’s LTE services are currently unavailable across the country, and they have been unavailable for several hours now. We’ve confirmed the outage here in New York City with our Samsung DROID Charge and have noticed that Verizon’s 3G network also appears to be unavailable. There’s no official word from Verizon Wireless on the outage, so it’s unclear how long it will last.

UPDATE: Verizon posted the following to its official Twitter account: “We’re aware of an issue with the 4G LTE connections and our network engineers are working to resolve quickly. Investigating 4G LTE network issue; ThunderBolts making voice calls, may get slower 1xRTT data.”

For all the Kooky nuts that accused BGR of lying, or even crazier its Apple’s doing:

If Verizon themselves acknowledge the outage, well … Its probably true. Ya’ think?

If your phone is working fine then say its working fine, but don’t start fanboy rants. There are actual people suffering from the outage and I’m sure Verizon floats around threads like these to get intel on where people are having service issues.